The Taft School

Watertown · CT · Private independent

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Where graduates go: #5 feeder school to Georgetown. The Taft School's own list (past five years (2020-2024)), enrolled: Georgetown (34), Cornell (22), Southern Methodist University (21), Brown (19), Bucknell (18). Feeder standing: #3 Trinity College, #4 University of Richmond, #5 Georgetown, #8 Bucknell.
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Where graduates go — as published by the school

The Taft School publishes where its graduates enrolled (past five years (2020-2024)): 62 colleges with per-college counts — the largest counts enrolled at Georgetown University (34), Cornell University (22), Southern Methodist University (21). See the full list ↓

Top-10 feeder to 1 top college #5Georgetown University6.8/yr

Feeder standing #5 to Georgetown University, #3 to Trinity College, #4 to University of Richmond, #8 to Bucknell University — from its own published counts, ranked per class year

Their published matriculation list

Where their graduates enrolled

The Taft School publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 62 colleges, ordered by the number of students enrolled.

Years, as the document states them
past five years (2020-2024)

The ten largest counts, enrolled

Georgetown University 34

Cornell University 22

Southern Methodist University 21

Brown University 19

Bucknell University 18

University of Richmond 18

New York University 17

University of Miami 17

University of Pennsylvania 17

Trinity College 16

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— Stanford University ✓ New York University · 17 ✓ University of Southern California · 9 ✓ University of California, Los Angeles · 5 ✓ University of California, Berkeley · 9 ✓ University of Michigan · 13 ✓ Cornell University · 22 ✓ Boston University · 9 ✓ Northeastern University · 13 ✓ University of Texas at Austin · 7 ✓ Georgetown University · 34 ✓ Duke University · 10

Any college:

#5of 208 feeder schools to Georgetown University · 6.8/yrTop college #3of 93 feeder schools to Trinity College · 3.2/yr #4of 140 feeder schools to University of Richmond · 3.6/yr #8of 130 feeder schools to Bucknell University · 3.6/yr

The school down the road: The Woodhall School

College	The Taft School	The Woodhall School
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Carnegie Mellon University	✓ named	—
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Cornell University	✓ named	—
Dartmouth College	✓ named	—
Duke University	✓ named	—
Emory University	✓ named	—
Georgetown University	✓ named	—
Harvard University	✓ named	—
Johns Hopkins University	✓ named	—

Both schools print names, not counts, so this shows which selective colleges each list names.

All 62 colleges, as the document prints them

College · Students

Georgetown University 34

Cornell University 22

Southern Methodist University 21

Brown University 19

Bucknell University 18

University of Richmond 18

New York University 17

University of Miami 17

University of Pennsylvania 17

Trinity College 16

Yale University 16

Tulane University 15

Boston College 14

University of Virginia 14

Wake Forest University 14

Northeastern University 13

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 13

Wesleyan University 13

Harvard University 11

Middlebury College 11

University of St. Andrews 11

University of Wisconsin-Madison 11

Amherst College 10

Duke University 10

Washington and Lee University 10

Boston University 9

Colorado College 9

Dartmouth College 9

Hamilton College 9

University of California-Berkeley 9

and 32 more

University of Colorado Boulder 9

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9

University of Southern California 9

Babson College 8

Bates College 8

Colby College 8

Colgate University 8

Tufts University 8

University of Connecticut 8

University of Notre Dame 8

College of the Holy Cross 7

Gettysburg College 7

University of Texas at Austin 7

Barnard College 6

Bowdoin College 6

Columbia University 6

Johns Hopkins University 6

McGill University 6

Princeton University 6

Santa Clara University 6

University of Chicago 6

Villanova University 6

Carnegie Mellon University 5

Emory University 5

Hobart William Smith Colleges 5

Indiana University-Bloomington 5

Pennsylvania State University 5

The George Washington University 5

University of California-Los Angeles 5

University of Rochester 5

University of San Diego 5

Washington University in St. Louis 5

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▸ LocallyCT students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
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University of Connecticut

54%

admit rate

$21,044

in-state tuition/yr · $43,712 out-of-state

1210–1420

SAT 25–75 · ACT 29–33

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About this listing

The Taft School is listed by PSS 2020 · NAIS + TABS + founder list. Its enrollment figures below come from the most recent federal Private School Survey it answered; the survey is voluntary, and the school did not respond to the latest wave. The school's own site: www.taftschool.org ↗

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 594 in 2018 to 600 in 2020 — over 2 years.

+1.0%

Why only 2 data points?

Private school enrollment comes from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which is collected every other year — not annually like public-school data. The most recent published collection is 2021–22; NCES targeted spring 2026 for the 2023–24 release — we'll load it as soon as it's published.

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At a glance

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The Taft School is a private high school in Watertown, CT, enrolling 600 students in grades 9-12 in 2020.

Enrollment is up 1% from 2018 to 2020.

The Taft School publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the past five years (2020-2024): 62 colleges, with per-college counts; the largest counts are Georgetown University (34), Cornell University (22), Southern Methodist University (21), Brown University (19), Bucknell University (18). Source: Taft by the Numbers — "College Matriculation" section.

The Taft School's feeder standing, from the schools' own published counts: #3 Trinity College, #4 University of Richmond, #5 Georgetown, #8 Bucknell.

Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named.

Questions families ask

Where do The Taft School graduates go to college? The Taft School publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the past five years (2020-2024): 62 colleges, with per-college counts; the largest counts are Georgetown University (34), Cornell University (22), Southern Methodist University (21), Brown University (19), Bucknell University (18). Source: Taft by the Numbers — "College Matriculation" section.

Which colleges is The Taft School a top feeder school to? The Taft School's feeder standing, from the schools' own published counts: #3 Trinity College, #4 University of Richmond, #5 Georgetown, #8 Bucknell.

How many students attend The Taft School? The Taft School is a private high school in Watertown, CT, enrolling 600 students in grades 9-12 in 2020.

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